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Dogs
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Based on an average life span of 11 years, the cost of owning
a dog is $13,350. |
Dogs only sweat from the bottoms of their feet, the only way
they can discharge heat is by panting. Dogs and wolves yawn
as a sign of contentment. |
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them
made with the ears. Unfortunately, the likes of bulldogs and
pitbulls only have 10, due to their breeding. Therefore, these
dogs easily get misinterpreted by other dogs and often get
into fights. |
One of the worlds oldest breeds of dog is the Saluki. It is
thought to have been developed in ancient Mesopotamia around
3000 B.C. |
"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines)
came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic
people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing. |
A dog's sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If
a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the
stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes,
spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew.
In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes
from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than
the dog itself. |
It was recently discovered that dogs DO see in color, just
not as vivid as the color that humans see. |
Two dogs survived the sinking of Titanic, yes that's right,
two DOGS survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying
so few people that no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New
York brought her Pomeranian with her in lifeboat No. 7, while
Henry Sleeper Harper of the publishing family boarded boat
No. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen. |
Giving dogs chocolate could be fatal for them, because theobromine,
an ingredient of chocolate, stimulates the central nervous
system and cardiac muscle. About 1.1 kg of milk chocolate or
just 146 g of cooking chocolate (which has more theobromine
per gram) could kill a 22 kg dog. |
In the original 101 Dalmatians movie, Pongo has 72 spots, Perdita
has 68 and each of the puppies has 32.
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